I'd like to submit a formal request for Quickbooks to supply a version of QB Desktop to allow former customers to access their historical data, I completely understand that QB's commercial priority is to migrate its customers to new products, ideally Quickbooks Cloud, for ongoing accounting, and the Data Export tool facilitates that. That said, the Data Export tool is insufficient for checking historical records. The seven year time limit is too short, and it is dependent on the continued existence of Quickbooks as an organisation. There is a requirement for something permanent, which will work in perpetuity. It should not be too expensive for Quickbooks to provide a perpetual read-only licence of the latest version of QB Desktop to enable customers and former customers to access old data.